One Step Beyond

sandshoe said:

April 23, 2012 at 12:09 am

I was 41 before I learned of ska Algy, and bought a compilation ‘History of Ska’ album. For me, it was a distinguishably street sound I felt for. It helped me on radio that I could identify with it. The young men in that local scene were well into fusion, reggae and hiphop I was familiar with from living in NZ. Ska was the link, Algy, it struck a chord.

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gerard oosterman said:

April 22, 2012 at 4:37 pm

I love to listen to the excellent line up of music, but with the precarious state of our internet connection, I’ll have to wait another few agonizingg days when we get a Big Pond. I wonder if the Bossa Nova is still as popular as when I used to dance it across town?
If I connect now I might have to heave up the three stage ladder and put the mini Wi_Fi over the roof tops.

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helvityni said:

April 22, 2012 at 10:40 am

I have to show my ignorance here, I don’t even know what SKA means… 🙂

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- algernon1 said:
  
  April 22, 2012 at 11:08 am
  
  Here’s a little cut from wikipedia that decribes fairly well what Ska music is.
  
  “Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the upbeat. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.
  
  Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s (First Wave), the English 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s (Second Wave) and the third wave ska movement, which started in the 1980s (Third Wave) and rose to popularity in the US in the 1990s.”
  
  Here The Porkers (Australian), and the Mighty Might Bosstones (USA) are third wave, The Specials, Madness, The English Beat, Allnighters (a Sydney Band), The Selector, The Bodysnatchers and Bad Manners are all second wave and English apart from the Allnighters. The rest are first wave and are Jamaican or English Jamaican. Many of the first wave Ska bands also played Reggee.
  
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  - V.L said:
    
    April 23, 2012 at 10:06 pm
    
    Interesting. I have played about 3. All good. You were right with your Calypso observation last week.
    
    I’ll listen more manyana.
    
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Therese Trouserzoff said:

April 22, 2012 at 1:35 am

Algy shoots and scores ! I love SKA, Alg. Mighty Mighty Bosstones and the Paragons – doing the 1967 original of what was to become a monster hit for Blondie in 1980 – the Tide is High. So much great stuff in this playlist too !

And…. that great Newcastle NSW Band – the Porkers – sure to be a Pig’s Arms regular band, no ?

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- algernon1 said:
  
  April 22, 2012 at 10:54 am
  
  It’s a good blend of the originals, those we should know and the modern. You can see the influence that Prince Buster had on bands like Madness for example. The Porkers are great aren’t they, could have put up swings like tiger woods but it’s been here before, same with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
  
  One great rediscovery for me here though was Train to Skaville by The Ethiopians a fav from the past but forgotten.
  
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